You can't really load and unload a train in three minutes unless it's a subway-style hope-you-have-no-luggage system. 45 minute round trip times are much more feasible, but how many people want to travel between Dubai and Abu Dhabi and don't need a car at the other end?
My polling place isn't even in my voting precinct. It's 0.6 miles/1 km outside of the nearest point of it. I have to drive past another precinct's polling place to get to it from my house. So, eh? I could walk there in about twenty minutes, if my car exploded. Might take me five on a bicycle (though there's a big hill, so return journey would be longer).
UTC exists because of GMT. And GMT exists for one reason: the British were the first to have a very good method of longitude determination by celestial navigation, and you had to have a standard time reference.
It's turned out to be pretty useful for globally coordinating activities carried out by lumps of silicon. It's almost completely useless for the meatbags that use them.
They most certainly do choose exactly where they're going to go. Where I live, they go straight to nursing homes and black churches, not redneck bars and the VFW hall.
Given that there are all manner of free "go vote" shuttles provided every election season, I'm pretty sure that giving someone a ride straight to or from the polling place isn't a violation of that law.
Phoenix, Dallas, and Orange County are on the list, but since there's not a lot of question how those states will go, it's unlikely to change much. They're aiming for MI, NC, FL, and PA.
And there's an entire industry dedicated to selling these things at high prices.
Go take a look at an auction house - not necessarily Christies or Sothebys, just a normal house that sells off the estates of well-to-do-but-not-insanely-wealthy people. Read their sales results for jewelry. It sells for at most half the price you'd pay at a retailer.
You can open a tab with cash, you're just going to have to lay down more than they think you'll spend. I've never had a bartender not open one up for me with a hundred to secure it.
That article you linked says it's at about the 30th percentile for Arizona: "Maricopa's crime rate is lower than approximately 69% of Arizona communities."
When you live in a really safe area, and it's not your civil rights that get trampled on to make it so...
He did this in Phoenix. Maricopa County, Arizona. Sheriff Joe Arpaio. That's why.
Sheriff Joe isn't a nice guy, and he doesn't much worry about civil liberties. OTOH, he sure does keep the crime rate down, which is why he keeps getting reelected.
A few hundred dollars in cash is always a wise idea, for that reason. My dad always told me to keep a $20 bill in my car's trunk as an emergency gas supply - today I'd make that $50-$100, but the principle is the same. When you get in trouble, everyone takes cash.
Nobody uses dollar coins because when you get four of them, it's a pain - they're bigger than quarters, and thus fairly heavy. And you can't use them in vending machines. You have to have a dollar and a two-dollar coin to make it work, just as Canada, the UK, and the Eurozone do. And the tipping culture of the US means that you need a lot of $1 bills - I routinely take $100 in ones on trips for taxis, bellhops, etc., and it fits in a nice, thin, lightweight envelope that's far smaller and lighter than two rolls of $1 coins would be.
It doesn't take an experienced radiologist anything like 5 minutes to read an x-ray and dictate a report. Maybe 30-45 seconds.
It's just a matter of pattern recognition. They know what "normal" looks like, they know what to put a little extra attention on, and most of them like to show off a little - they'll mention old rib fractures on a chest X-ray, for example.
Municipally owned. Provided to citizens at, basically, cost.
I've got "gigabit" fiber at my house for about the same price, although it slows down to around 400-500 Mbps once you leave my provider's network. Provided by a private company. Yeah, it's awesome. Zero downtime since it was installed.
I don't know the details, but Chattanooga is in the TVA area, so cheap hydro power. It's close to Atlanta, so clear path to major networks. And it's on the US 11 corridor, which is one of the biggest freight arteries in the country. I'd be stunned if it didn't have huge amounts of connectivity. In this case, though, his hospital(s) are probably also on Chattanooga muni fiber, so it's mostly internal.
It's perfectly normal. My hospital has Citrix-based VM's that I use to access patient data at home. It's all web-based (and slow, but then again I'm not a radiologist and don't need to pump that much data over the pipe), but I imagine his setup is a VPN.
As for the speed, he probably writes the whole thing off as a business expense. Given that his marginal tax rate is probably 42.5% (39.6% federal income + 2.9% Medicare) that means that effectively, he gets home 10Gb internet for just over $170/mo.
The kind of people who swear that they're "moving to Canada" if XYZ is elected are mostly, if not exclusively, from the class that would have no difficulty getting citizenship somewhere else.
My Apple chargers cost a hell of a lot of money. OTOH, they were fed generator power from Kenyan safari parks and behaved no differently from how they would in the lounge at Schiphol. It doesn't have to cost as much as the Apple stuff, but there's a lot more going on there than just the appearance, and the Apple gear is completely modular.
I like my Apple touchpad, but there are some things that a mouse is just better for - it's a lot easier to drag on a mouse, e.g. But for most things you might use a mouse for, an even better choice is a thumb-operated trackball. I used a couple of Logitech trackballs for ages. Marvelous precision, and you don't have to worry about holding your hand perfectly still when clicking.
I understand the POV you're espousing here - but the reality is that although nurses and doctors work in what seems like the same field to the layman, the reality is that the training regimens and skill sets are completely different. I've lost track of how many times I've had to explain things to very good, very experienced nurses that I would absolutely crucify a third-year medical student for not knowing.
In theory, you're totally right. In practice, the nurses don't know what questions to ask, or how to ask them, or how to evaluate their validity. If you had a computer that was as good at interrogation as a doctor, we wouldn't have TSA agents.
A very specific diagnosis is, after all, just another name for a list of the symptoms; you're just complaining that the list isn't precise enough. How much are you willing to spend to try to figure out precisely what's causing it? It's not so much "yeah, dunno" as "yeah, not worth trying to figure it out".
I mean, there are lots of genetic mutations with "variable penetrance". Why do some people get just a touch, and others get slapped down hard? Could be auxiliary genes, could be genetic mosaicism, could be something else. Likewise with common diseases: there are many things that could cause symptoms XYZ, but once you've ruled out the ones that are going to kill you right soon, there's not much point in going on a long hunt for the exact causative agent, because the tests cost a lot and have false positives and negatives. Treat symptomatically. If it doesn't get better, look deeper. But most of the time, it does.
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You can't really load and unload a train in three minutes unless it's a subway-style hope-you-have-no-luggage system. 45 minute round trip times are much more feasible, but how many people want to travel between Dubai and Abu Dhabi and don't need a car at the other end?
Yeah, that's why I said "UTC exists because of GMT", instead of "UTC is GMT".
My polling place isn't even in my voting precinct. It's 0.6 miles/1 km outside of the nearest point of it. I have to drive past another precinct's polling place to get to it from my house. So, eh? I could walk there in about twenty minutes, if my car exploded. Might take me five on a bicycle (though there's a big hill, so return journey would be longer).
As many live at a church as a VFW hall. Yet those do seem to be popular pickup points.
UTC exists because of GMT. And GMT exists for one reason: the British were the first to have a very good method of longitude determination by celestial navigation, and you had to have a standard time reference.
It's turned out to be pretty useful for globally coordinating activities carried out by lumps of silicon. It's almost completely useless for the meatbags that use them.
They most certainly do choose exactly where they're going to go. Where I live, they go straight to nursing homes and black churches, not redneck bars and the VFW hall.
Given that there are all manner of free "go vote" shuttles provided every election season, I'm pretty sure that giving someone a ride straight to or from the polling place isn't a violation of that law.
Phoenix, Dallas, and Orange County are on the list, but since there's not a lot of question how those states will go, it's unlikely to change much. They're aiming for MI, NC, FL, and PA.
And there's an entire industry dedicated to selling these things at high prices.
Go take a look at an auction house - not necessarily Christies or Sothebys, just a normal house that sells off the estates of well-to-do-but-not-insanely-wealthy people. Read their sales results for jewelry. It sells for at most half the price you'd pay at a retailer.
You can open a tab with cash, you're just going to have to lay down more than they think you'll spend. I've never had a bartender not open one up for me with a hundred to secure it.
That article you linked says it's at about the 30th percentile for Arizona: "Maricopa's crime rate is lower than approximately 69% of Arizona communities."
When you live in a really safe area, and it's not your civil rights that get trampled on to make it so...
He did this in Phoenix. Maricopa County, Arizona. Sheriff Joe Arpaio. That's why.
Sheriff Joe isn't a nice guy, and he doesn't much worry about civil liberties. OTOH, he sure does keep the crime rate down, which is why he keeps getting reelected.
A few hundred dollars in cash is always a wise idea, for that reason. My dad always told me to keep a $20 bill in my car's trunk as an emergency gas supply - today I'd make that $50-$100, but the principle is the same. When you get in trouble, everyone takes cash.
Nobody uses dollar coins because when you get four of them, it's a pain - they're bigger than quarters, and thus fairly heavy. And you can't use them in vending machines. You have to have a dollar and a two-dollar coin to make it work, just as Canada, the UK, and the Eurozone do. And the tipping culture of the US means that you need a lot of $1 bills - I routinely take $100 in ones on trips for taxis, bellhops, etc., and it fits in a nice, thin, lightweight envelope that's far smaller and lighter than two rolls of $1 coins would be.
It doesn't take an experienced radiologist anything like 5 minutes to read an x-ray and dictate a report. Maybe 30-45 seconds.
It's just a matter of pattern recognition. They know what "normal" looks like, they know what to put a little extra attention on, and most of them like to show off a little - they'll mention old rib fractures on a chest X-ray, for example.
Municipally owned. Provided to citizens at, basically, cost.
I've got "gigabit" fiber at my house for about the same price, although it slows down to around 400-500 Mbps once you leave my provider's network. Provided by a private company. Yeah, it's awesome. Zero downtime since it was installed.
I don't know the details, but Chattanooga is in the TVA area, so cheap hydro power. It's close to Atlanta, so clear path to major networks. And it's on the US 11 corridor, which is one of the biggest freight arteries in the country. I'd be stunned if it didn't have huge amounts of connectivity. In this case, though, his hospital(s) are probably also on Chattanooga muni fiber, so it's mostly internal.
It's perfectly normal. My hospital has Citrix-based VM's that I use to access patient data at home. It's all web-based (and slow, but then again I'm not a radiologist and don't need to pump that much data over the pipe), but I imagine his setup is a VPN.
As for the speed, he probably writes the whole thing off as a business expense. Given that his marginal tax rate is probably 42.5% (39.6% federal income + 2.9% Medicare) that means that effectively, he gets home 10Gb internet for just over $170/mo.
For that price, wouldn't you?
The kind of people who swear that they're "moving to Canada" if XYZ is elected are mostly, if not exclusively, from the class that would have no difficulty getting citizenship somewhere else.
My Apple chargers cost a hell of a lot of money. OTOH, they were fed generator power from Kenyan safari parks and behaved no differently from how they would in the lounge at Schiphol. It doesn't have to cost as much as the Apple stuff, but there's a lot more going on there than just the appearance, and the Apple gear is completely modular.
I like my Apple touchpad, but there are some things that a mouse is just better for - it's a lot easier to drag on a mouse, e.g. But for most things you might use a mouse for, an even better choice is a thumb-operated trackball. I used a couple of Logitech trackballs for ages. Marvelous precision, and you don't have to worry about holding your hand perfectly still when clicking.
Way to miss the point.
other rarer types
I'm always up for some continuing medical education. Type I is lack of insulin. Type II is insulin resistance. What are the other, rarer types?
I understand the POV you're espousing here - but the reality is that although nurses and doctors work in what seems like the same field to the layman, the reality is that the training regimens and skill sets are completely different. I've lost track of how many times I've had to explain things to very good, very experienced nurses that I would absolutely crucify a third-year medical student for not knowing.
In theory, you're totally right. In practice, the nurses don't know what questions to ask, or how to ask them, or how to evaluate their validity. If you had a computer that was as good at interrogation as a doctor, we wouldn't have TSA agents.
A very specific diagnosis is, after all, just another name for a list of the symptoms; you're just complaining that the list isn't precise enough. How much are you willing to spend to try to figure out precisely what's causing it? It's not so much "yeah, dunno" as "yeah, not worth trying to figure it out".
I mean, there are lots of genetic mutations with "variable penetrance". Why do some people get just a touch, and others get slapped down hard? Could be auxiliary genes, could be genetic mosaicism, could be something else. Likewise with common diseases: there are many things that could cause symptoms XYZ, but once you've ruled out the ones that are going to kill you right soon, there's not much point in going on a long hunt for the exact causative agent, because the tests cost a lot and have false positives and negatives. Treat symptomatically. If it doesn't get better, look deeper. But most of the time, it does.